It sounds more like a segment on “Cops” rather than a diplomatic issue, but obnoxious trailer park neighbor Kim Jong-un isn’t keeping his trash on his property. Since Tuesday, North Korea has launched a series of balloons carrying its trash, junk and manure over the border into South Korea, where the falling debris sets off security and safety alerts, the Associated Press reports.
Hundreds of balloons started soaring south over the border Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, triggering missile warnings and national security alerts and forcing the South Korean government to dispatch hazardous materials and demolition teams to check out each of the more than 250 “deliveries” of trash and garbage that. More balloons were spotted Saturday, triggering text warnings to citizens to be careful of falling debris.
Like a petulant child, Pyongyang is responding to a South Korea project that drops propaganda leaflets over populated areas in North Korea, a practice South Korea has done for years in an effort to destabilize the North Korea regime.